Senior Product Owner (Remote - Louisiana Only)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana•Baton Rouge, LA

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Product Owner is a member of an agile delivery team and holds the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog consisting of user stories, defects and enablers. The Senior Product Owner must have strong communications and leadership skills in order to serve as liaison between business stakeholders and product delivery teams, influence business adoption of best practices, manage dependencies and drive fidelity to future state requirements throughout the implementation process. The person in this role must work well in cross-functional, matrixed teams as well as with external vendors. The Senior Product Owner champions agile practices within their team and coaches other team members to drive effectiveness. Accountable for complying with all laws and regulations associated with duties and responsibilities. This role does not manage people. Necessary Contacts: To do this job effectively the incumbent has to be in contact with all levels of management including senior management, departmental management, team members, vendors, and consultants.

Requirements

Bachelor's in Business, Management Information Systems, or any IT related degree required
Four years of related experience can be used in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
4 years of business analyst, systems analyst, project management or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Healthcare industry experience
Demonstrated ability to implement complex, large scale solutions
Possesses advanced business process mapping skills
Ability to build and gain trust quickly
Experience working with enterprise level software
Experience working with Microsoft TFS or Azure DevOps
Experience with delimited flat files, XML, EDI X12, EDIFACT, JSON and/or other standard data exchange formats
Experience with implementing in-house custom solutions as well as COTS systems
Ability to understand and use basic SQL
Familiarity with communication protocols (FTP, ETL, web services)
Strong financial acumen
Understanding of health payer regulations such as HIPAA
SAFe, Scrum, Project management, business analysis (IIBA), or lean sigma certifications

Responsibilities

Elicit, analyze, and document stakeholders’ business needs and requirements
Acts as a liaison for business stakeholders and end-users, determining whether all work meets their shared expectations
Elicit business requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
Translate stakeholder requirements into product deliverables organized as epics, features and user stories
Creates clear, feasible, and testable user stories including acceptance criteria
Influence and lead negotiating activities in order to ensure the best business solution when several opposing viewpoints/alternatives exist.
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
Expected to attend and engage in all applicable team and program-level ceremonies.
May lead the planning and execution of select ceremonies as assigned.
Set, prioritize and evaluate the work generated by an agile delivery team in order to ensure its product creates value for BCBSLA’s stakeholders
Provides vision and direction to the scrum team
Plans and prioritizes user story backlog for a product
Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and features to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy and business goals
Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
Owns team backlog and responsible for building, editing, and managing it by engaging the product manager, agile teams, stakeholders, and IT partners to ensure content and priority alignment with program backlog.
Inspects and evaluates product progress through each iteration, and makes the judgment call on user story and feature completion
Lead the planning of product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum/SAFe best practices and new trends
Assist QA in developing test scenarios and test plans to be used in testing the business applications in order to verify that client requirements are incorporated in to the system design.
Champions and coaches team on agile practices like SAFe and Scrum
Perform other job-related duties as assigned, within your scope of responsibilities.